Lucky Dog Audio Post

Yeah. We cast and recorded these elves. The biggest challenge was finding an elf with a Spanish accent. It's hard enough to get elves in the booth this time of year but finding a Spanish elf who also had time for a VO session! Dang. That took a couple of calls. A Red Deluxe production, animation from Miracle Studios.

This past month we did the sound design for this bumpin' ASU promo that ran on ESPN2 during the ASU / ULM game on October 19. Scott did some really rad sfx work to create the ratcheting sounds that mark the Transformers-ish action early in this video. Without giving too much away I'll just mention that guns were involved and leave it at that.

Speaking of sports and sound design, have you seen the Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No video produced by No Mas???!!! Yowza! First off, it's an amazing story. But this video is the stuff! Great animation, killer song and some supa-clever sound design. The phone sounds are brilliant. Dig it! Wish I could say this was one of ours. Envy, thy name is Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No.

The assignment: write and record a school song/national anthem for a sports team that sounds like a huge men's chorus. Demo it up in less than a week.

We really had fun doing it. We listened to a lot of school songs. Sellout came up with the composition. Singers were hired. We had a concert band standing by to replace the demo instruments. But as is often the case, now it's dead. And while we can't share the whole thing with you, here's a little taste.

Stay with it. Behind-the-scenes with singers can be a little scary. And yes, that hat I'm wearing makes me look like a itinerant NASCAR fan.

Our pal Tara at Third Degree Creative just posted a nice piece on her blog about a spot we produced last week. As she points out, the casting on this spot was too good to go without comment. Anyway I'll let her post explain why Angel Tolentino was the perfect actress/artist for this spot.

Third Degree Creative: Good Things Come In Pairs via kwout

Tara's posts are always superb - great writing and awesome photographs. For this post she uploaded example's of Angel's art and even gave the script a mini-makeover (i.e. we didn't get pink scripts for the session). The only thing she left out was the radio spot itself. So here ya go — hat's off to both Angel and AJ Parker for their work on this dialogue-driven radio spot:

One of my favorite bits of the job is working with actors: finding a character, creating an emotional context, honing a performance. Occasionally we get to put that aside and simply work with un-narrated visuals, like this piece for Intake Studio.

And you know what? That's darn fun too.

Another in the "Recent Work" catagory:

This spot makes me smile. Friendly VO, nice music and sound effects work that celebrates the playful vibe of the visuals. After trying several approaches on the car sound, we decided that the toy-box look needed a toy-box sound. Foley lip-buzzing by yours truly, modded with a "bubbly" vocoder effect.

For more, (and certainly more coherent,) behind the scenes commentary, see our friends at Third Degree.

Here's a new radio spot we produced last week that's airing in Nashville. It's kind of weird. Especially the opening chord. I think that has something to do with pandiatonic harmony. Anyway, the whole concept behind the dialogue is some kind of inside joke. I don't get it. Apparently there was an invasion in the 1960s that I was never told about.

Maybe I'll ask Bumpercar to elaborate.

On Tuesday, the Energy Efficiency Arkansas campaign we worked on last month officially launched.

R&B group lends song, images to Ark. energy ads - BusinessWeek via kwout

That's right, BusinessWeek, we got to record ARCHIE BELL AND THE DRELLS! Archie Bell and the Drells

Archie Bell and the Drells and the Scott

For this project, we recorded all of Archie Bell's voice overs for the radio and television spots (summer and winter versions) as well as all of Archie Bell and the Drells's vocals for the music bed. You can watch the television spots on the Energy Efficiency Arkansas website. Here's the radio we produced (also featuring Paul Manutes in the role of the Archie Bell and the Drells superfan):

Listen to Summer Radio

Listen to Winter Radio

Here's more news of Lucky Dog award winning work. Check out this ADDY award winning video we mixed for Zehnder Communications last year.

LSUHSC Important Work from LSU Health Sciences Center on Vimeo.

Plus Zehnder won ADDY's for Edgen Murray (web animation) and Louisiana Public Health Institute's smoking cessation campaign (radio). Both projects received the Lucky Dog Audio Post touch (not to be confused with the Tellington Touch).

PS. Here's a couple of samples from the LPHI radio campaign:

Quit With Us

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Looks like our buddies at Third Degree totally cleaned up this year at the Oklahoma City ADDYs with their Buck the Norm campaign!! Buck yeah! Buck the Norm won Best Interactive, Best Broadcast and Best In Show!!! Whoo hoo!

We had a lot of fun working on this project. Besides finding a unique piece of music we also got to get laid-back with the voice over. Plus the script required some quirky sound effects which we pulled from our SFX vault (the clapping toy monkey and the film projector clicks and hums) as well as from the voice actor himself ("yarg" and "argg" and "Bada dah Da da Da DA"). This was mos def a fun one. Buckin rock!

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